‘They could grow a third leg 10 years from now’
MITCHELL: Well the thing that’s popular in our sports now, and I’m talking to you hypothetical, like we don’t know for sure, this is what I hear.
REPORTER: Right. MITCHELL: What’s going on in the sport now is that people are taking things what are called tailored type drugs.
R: Tailored?
MITCHELL: Yeah, because in order for somebody to get caught, there is like, like a DNA strain that particular steroid has...
R: Yeah.
MITCHELL: Right, and they test for that strain.
R: Yeah.
MITCHELL: Right, well you know a DNA strain has all kinds of chemicals connected to it.
R: So if they change it slightly? MITCHELL: They pull one out, put something else in. Now it’s totally different.
R: Oh, okay.
MITCHELL: So that’s a tailored kind of drug, the only problem with that is you don’t know what it gives you on the other end as the side-effects. R: Right, okay. MITCHELL: So these athletes are out there taking all these chances but they don’t know what’s going to happen to their body. They could grow a third leg 10 years from now. R: Right.
MITCHELL: You know, you know the design of that particular steroid or whatever, you know the sideeffects because you’ve had the trials on it but if you change the molecular structure of it…
R: Right.
MITCHELL: … and making something else that still gives you the muscular benefit but it may make you blind.
R: Yeah, yeah. MITCHELL: Know what I mean? You just don’t know.